Lebesgue sampling-based deep belief network for lithium-ion battery diagnosis and prognosis

ABSTRACT

Fault diagnosis and prognosis (FDP) is critical for ensuring system reliability and reducing operation and maintenance (O&amp;M) costs. Lebesgue sampling based FDP (LS-FDP) is an event-based approach with the advantages of cost-efficiency, uncertainty management, and less computation. In previous works, LS-FDP approaches are mainly model-based. However, fault dynamic modeling is difficult and time consuming for some complex systems and this severely hinders the applications of LS-FDP. To address this problem, this present disclosure presents a data-driven based LS-FDP framework in which deep belief networks (DBN) and particle filter (PF) are integrated to achieve fault state estimation and remaining useful life (RUL) prediction. In the proposed approach, DBN learns the state evolution model and the Lebesgue time transition model, which are used as diagnostic and prognostic models in PF for FDP. The proposed approach has higher efficiency in terms of computation and better performance in terms of FDP accuracy and precision.

PRIORITY CLAIMS

The present application claims the benefit of priority of U.S.Provisional Patent Application No. 63/344,358, titled LebesgueSampling-Based Deep Learning for Battery Diagnosis and Prognosis, filedMay 20, 2022, and the benefit of priority of U.S. Provisional PatentApplication No. 63/395,512, titled Lebesgue Sampling-Based Deep BeliefNetwork for Lithium-Ion Battery Diagnosis and Prognosis, filed Aug. 5,2022, and both of which are fully incorporated herein by reference forall purposes.

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENTLY DISCLOSED SUBJECT MATTER I. Introduction

Modern industrial systems are often operated under various stresses.With these stresses, faults may occur and lead to system damage,failures, or catastrophic events if they are not detected and correctivemeasures are not taken in time. Therefore, real-time fault diagnosis andprognosis (FDP) is critical for reliable and optimal system operation.In the past few decades, battery FDP and battery management techniqueshave achieved considerable achievements in academia and industries[1]—[6], with many successful applications [7]—[11]. For example, anovel cost-efficient Lebesgue sampling-based FDP (LS-FDP) framework isproposed in [6], which can greatly reduce the computation cost, and theproposed approach is successfully used for battery fault diagnosis andremaining useful life (RUL) prediction. To accommodate the nonlinearfault dynamics, an adaptive LS-FDP is further developed in [5] toimprove the FDP efficiency. The proposed FDP approaches have beensuccessfully applied to various industrial systems, such as batteries,bearings, electric vehicles, etc. Theoretically, the existing FDPapproaches can be categorized as physical-model based and data-drivenbased [12], [13]. The physical-model based approaches typically describethe fault dynamic using comprehensive mathematical models, such as theaccumulative damage model [14], fault propagation model [15], andfailure physical model [16].

However, it is often challenging to model the fault degradationdynamics, especially for those complicated dynamics with different faultmechanisms, influencing factors [11], uncertainties, and strongnonlinearities. As a result, human involvement is often needed and itrequires domain knowledge of system and fault dynamics, advanced signalprocessing techniques, and parameter identification techniques, whichmakes design complicated, ad-hoc, and with low generality.

Battery degradation shows regular patterns at fixed operating conditionsin some traditional applications. In recent years, batteries are widelyused in electronics and electric vehicles (EV). As a result, the batteryapplication scenarios change a lot and batteries showing more dynamicsdue to the various charge and discharge operating conditions. Thedegradation of batteries is affected by various factors in the servicelife [17], such as charge-discharge cycles, depth of discharge (DOD),discharge current, operating temperature, cell inconsistency inseries-connected battery systems [18], etc. The aging phenomenon ofbatteries shows more dynamic characteristics. Even the degradations ofthe batteries under constant operating conditions also show manycharacteristics, such as fluctuations, local peaks, etc. Thesecharacteristics can be caused by data collection noise, testingtemperature, battery charge-discharge characteristics, battery recoveryeffects, variances in battery manufacturing, etc. Therefore, accurateand efficient modeling of the battery degradation is of great challengeand becomes more and more complex for batteries in modern applications.

Traditional degradation modeling methods have difficulties to capturethis kind of characteristics and the FPD performance will be affected.On the contrary, deep learning techniques are powerful in learning thesedata characteristics and, therefore, are introduced for batterydegradation modeling. Moreover, although the proposed FDP method isdeveloped for batteries, it also explores and provides an effective FDPsolution and can be easily expanded to many other industrial systems.

Recently, deep learning techniques, including Deep Belief Networks(DBNs), Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM), and Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs), have achieved great successes in many fields, including FDP,which provide a solution to address the above-mentioned issues[19]—[21]. Each of these representative deep learning networks has itsown unique advantages for different applications [22]. For example, CNNexhibits excellence in image processing tasks; LSTM is suitable indealing with sequence processing tasks such as speech recognition due toits memory block structure; and DBN performs well in time seriesprediction, natural language processing, etc.

Although these deep learning algorithms have powerful feature extractionand learning abilities [23], [24], they are not capable of uncertaintymanagement, which is critical in FDP, especially long-term prediction inprognosis. It is desirable to integrate deep learning based model withuncertainty management techniques to improve the FDP performance andcapability. Among the three deep learning networks, DBN is developedearlier, has more applications [25], and has achieved great performancein terms of accuracy, stability, and practicality. For this reason, DBNis employed in this work to model the degradation behaviors of thebatteries.

Moreover, traditional FDP algorithms are designed in Riemann sampling(RS) framework. In this RS-based FDP (RSFDP), algorithms are executedperiodically when a new measurement (it is often the feature or thefault indicator extracted from raw data) becomes available. In practice,fault growth rate for many systems is slow, especially at the earlystage of a fault. Consequently, the periodic execution of RS-FDP leadsto heavy computation and high demand of computational resource. Thiscauses difficulties in real-time applications, especially thosedistributed ones, where FDP algorithms are deployed on portable devicesor embedded systems that have only limited computation and storagecapabilities. Besides, the traditional RS-based methods usually have alarge prediction horizon, which will increase prediction uncertainty andaffect FDP performance.

To address this issue, a novel Lebesgue sampling based FDP (LS-FDP)framework was proposed [6]. LS-FDP is an event-based FDP approach, inwhich the algorithm is triggered when an event (the fault state changefrom the current Lebesgue state to another one) occurs. In this design,some unnecessary executions, especially when the fault degradation rateis slow, can be avoided. Meanwhile, the prognosis uncertainty will alsobe reduced with the reduction of the prediction horizon. In the existingworks, LS-FDP are based on simple empirical fault dynamic model, whichis insufficient for data analysis, feature extraction, and complicateddynamic model. This hinders the application of LS-FDP in complexsystems.

SUMMARY OF THE PRESENTLY DISCLOSED SUBJECT MATTER

Aspects and advantages of the presently disclosed subject matter will beset forth in part in the following description, or may be apparent fromthe description, or may be learned through practice of the presentlydisclosed subject matter.

Broadly speaking, the presently disclosed subject matter proposes aLS-FDP framework that integrates the automatic learning capability ofdeep learning techniques and uncertainty management capability ofBayesian estimation to address their individual limitations. With theintegration of DBN for data processing and modeling and particle filter(PF) for Bayesian estimation in Lebesgue sampling (LS), the proposedapproach is able to improve the prediction accuracy, provide uncertaintyrepresentation and management for fault state and RUL, and reduce thecomputation for real-time applications. The main contributions arethree-fold: 1). Integrate DBN and PF-based FDP in the LS framework toimprove the computational efficiency, accuracy, and extensibility of FDPapproaches; 2). Study the design and implementation of uncertaintymanagement of Monte Carlo method for modeling with deep learningtechniques; and 3). Verify the effectiveness of the proposed approachwith the implementation of offline and online experiments on lithium-ionbatteries.

Another presently disclosed broader object is generally directed to asystem that includes development of an algorithm and verification of amethod of the application of a battery under different real operatingconditions. Presently disclosed technology in some instances may includeLebesgue Sampling fault diagnosis and prognosis (LS-FDP) framework thatintegrates the automatic learning capability of deep learning techniquesand uncertainty management capability of Bayesian estimation to addresstheir individual limitations.

Still further, presently disclosed subject matter in part may relate toimprovement in the state of the art for Deep Belief Networks, Lebesguesampling, particle filtering, fault dynamic model, and Lithium-ionbattery evaluations.

Other example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems,apparatus, tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media, userinterfaces, memory devices, and electronic smart devices or the like. Toimplement methodology and technology herewith, one or more processorsmay be provided, programmed to perform the steps and functions as calledfor by the presently disclosed subject matter, as will be understood bythose of ordinary skill in the art.

One exemplary embodiment of presently disclosed subject matter relatesto a method for performing diagnosis and prognosis for lithium-ionbatteries which integrates deep learning based models with uncertaintymanagement techniques. Such method preferably comprises training amachine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-basedfault state model to identify and estimate a fault state distribution atan event time for a target battery based on training data associatedwith at least one training lithium-ion battery; and training amachine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-basedLebesgue time model to directly predict the operation time for the faultstate to reach pre-defined Lebesgue states based on training dataassociated with at least one training lithium-ion battery and the faultstate distribution at an event time. Such method preferably furthercomprises obtaining test data associated with a target battery;inputting the test data into the machine-learned fault state model;inputting the test data into the machine-learned Lebesgue time model;and receiving, as outputs of the models, diagnosis of the targetbattery's state distribution and prognosis of the target battery'sremaining useful life (RUL) distribution, respectively.

Yet another exemplary embodiment of presently disclosed subject matterrelates to a method for performing state-of-charge (SOC) diagnosis andprognosis for lithium-ion batteries which integrates deep beliefnetworks for data processing and modeling with particle filtering (PF)for Bayesian estimation in Lebesgue sampling (LS) for uncertaintymanagement. Such method preferably comprises: training a machine-learnedLebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-based fault state modelto identify and estimate a fault state distribution at an event time fora target battery based on training data associated with a plurality oftraining lithium-ion batteries; training a machine-learned Lebesguesampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-based Lebesgue time model todirectly predict the operation time for the fault state to reachpre-defined Lebesgue states based on training data associated with aplurality of training lithium-ion batteries and the fault statedistribution at an event time; obtaining test data associated with atarget battery; inputting the test data into the machine-learned faultstate model; inputting the test data into the machine-learned Lebesguetime model; and receiving, as outputs of the models, diagnosis of thetarget battery's state distribution and prognosis of the targetbattery's remaining useful life (RUL) distribution, respectively, usingrespective different models.

It is to be understood from the complete disclosure herewith that thepresently disclosed subject matter equally relates to both apparatus andcorresponding and related methodology.

An exemplary embodiment of a presently disclosed system according topresently disclosed subject matter relates to a system for performingbattery diagnosis and prognosis for lithium-ion batteries. Such systempreferably comprises a machine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deepbelief network (DBN)-based fault state model trained to identify andestimate a fault state distribution at an event time for a targetbattery based on training data associated with at least one traininglithium-ion battery; a machine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deepbelief network (DBN)-based Lebesgue time model trained to directlypredict the operation time for the fault state to reach pre-definedLebesgue states based on training data associated with at least onetraining lithium-ion battery and the fault state distribution at anevent time; one or more processors; and one or more non-transitorycomputer-readable media that store instructions that, when executed bythe one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to performoperations. Such operations preferably comprise obtaining test dataassociated with a target battery; inputting the test data into themachine-learned fault state model; inputting the test data into themachine-learned Lebesgue time model; and receiving, as outputs of themodels, diagnosis of the target battery's state distribution andprognosis of the target battery's remaining useful life (RUL)distribution, respectively.

Additional objects and advantages of the presently disclosed subjectmatter are set forth in, or will be apparent to, those of ordinary skillin the art from the detailed description herein. Also, it should befurther appreciated that modifications and variations to thespecifically illustrated, referred and discussed features, elements, andsteps hereof may be practiced in various embodiments, uses, andpractices of the presently disclosed subject matter without departingfrom the spirit and scope of the subject matter. Variations may include,but are not limited to, substitution of equivalent means, features, orsteps for those illustrated, referenced, or discussed, and thefunctional, operational, or positional reversal of various parts,features, steps, or the like.

Still further, it is to be understood that different embodiments, aswell as different presently preferred embodiments, of the presentlydisclosed subject matter may include various combinations orconfigurations of presently disclosed features, steps, or elements, ortheir equivalents (including combinations of features, parts, or stepsor configurations thereof not expressly shown in the Figures or statedin the detailed description of such Figures). Additional embodiments ofthe presently disclosed subject matter, not necessarily expressed in thesummarized section, may include and incorporate various combinations ofaspects of features, components, or steps referenced in the summarizedobjects above, and/or other features, components, or steps as otherwisediscussed in this application. Those of ordinary skill in the art willbetter appreciate the features and aspects of such embodiments, andothers, upon review of the remainder of the specification, and willappreciate that the presently disclosed subject matter applies equallyto corresponding methodologies as associated with practice of any of thepresent exemplary devices, and vice versa.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

A full and enabling disclosure of the presently disclosed subjectmatter, including the best mode thereof, directed to one of ordinaryskill in the art, is set forth in the specification, which makesreference to the appended Figures, in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary diagram of architecture of a deep beliefnetwork (DBN);

FIG. 2 illustrates a graph representing corresponding time distributionof each Lebesgue state, in conjunction with Lebesgue time measurementmethodology presently disclosed;

FIG. 3 graphically illustrates a Lebesgue time transition curve;

FIG. 4 graphically illustrates a presently disclosed conversion processbetween time distribution and state distribution;

FIG. 5 schematically illustrates exemplary implementation of presentlydisclosed Lebesgue sampling based DBN FDP (LS-DBN-FDP) subject matterwith an application to the degradation of state-of-health (SOH) oflithium-ion batteries;

FIG. 6 graphically illustrates presently disclosed exemplary eventcheckers in an exemplary battery SOH degradation case;

FIG. 7 illustrates a flowchart of exemplary implementation of presentlydisclosed LS-DBN based diagnosis procedure;

FIG. 8 illustrates a flowchart of exemplary implementation of presentlydisclosed LS-DBN based prognosis procedure;

FIG. 9 graphically illustrates exemplary Li-ion battery degradationdata;

FIG. 10 graphically illustrates exemplary extracted Lebesgue timemeasurement transition curves;

FIG. 11 (a) graphically illustrates exemplary modeling performance ofthe presently disclosed diagnostic model;

FIG. 11 (b) graphically illustrates exemplary modeling performance ofthe presently disclosed DBN trained prognostic Lebesgue time model(LTM);

FIG. 12 (a) graphically illustrates exemplary presently disclosed LS-DBNbased diagnosis at an exemplary 450th cycle;

FIG. 12 (b) graphically illustrates exemplary comparison of presentlydisclosed estimated current state capacity estimation distribution withthe baseline capacity distribution, in relation to the subject matter ofFIG. 12 (a);

FIG. 13 graphically illustrates exemplary presently disclosed LS-DBNbased prognosis at an exemplary 450th cycle;

FIGS. 14(a) through 14(d) graphically illustrate the α-λ metrics of fourrespective exemplary batteries and comparisons with the RS-FDP andpresently disclosed model based LS-FDP approaches;

FIGS. 15(a) through 15(d) respectively graphically provide visualcomparisons of results for four batteries using different analyticalmethods including the presently disclosed FDP methods;

FIG. 15(e) graphically illustrates an oriented coordinate system forFIGS. 15(a) through 15(d), with the X-axes of such FIGS. representingdifferent FDP methods, the Y-axes different batteries, and the Z-axesdifferent evaluation metrics;

FIG. 16 represents a battery testing system used for assessing presentlydisclosed subject matter;

FIG. 17 graphically illustrates battery testing data as obtained withtests performed during use of equipment represented in present FIG. 16 ;

FIG. 18 graphically illustrates the extracted Lebesgue time measurementtransition curves based on the presently disclosed Lebesgue-timeextraction strategy described in conjunction with FIG. 2 herewith;

FIG. 19 (a) graphically illustrates exemplary presently disclosed LS-DBNbased diagnosis at an exemplary 270th cycle;

FIG. 19 (b) graphically illustrates exemplary comparison of presentlydisclosed estimated current state capacity estimation distribution withthe baseline capacity distribution, in relation to the subject matter ofFIG. 19 (a);

FIG. 20 graphically illustrates exemplary presently disclosed LS-DBNbased prognosis at an exemplary 270th cycle; and

FIGS. 21(a) through 21(d) respectively show the presently disclosedremaining useful life (RUL) prediction results of leave-one-outvalidation of four exemplary batteries in terms of α-λ metrics withα=0:3.

Repeat use of reference characters in the present specification anddrawings is intended to represent the same or analogous features orelements or steps of the presently disclosed subject matter.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENTLY DISCLOSED SUBJECT MATTER

It is to be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that thepresent disclosure is a description of exemplary embodiments only, andis not intended as limiting the broader aspects of the disclosed subjectmatter. Each example is provided by way of explanation of the presentlydisclosed subject matter, not limitation of the presently disclosedsubject matter. In fact, it will be apparent to those skilled in the artthat various modifications and variations can be made in the presentlydisclosed subject matter without departing from the scope or spirit ofthe presently disclosed subject matter. For instance, featuresillustrated or described as part of one embodiment can be used withanother embodiment to yield a still further embodiment. Thus, it isintended that the presently disclosed subject matter covers suchmodifications and variations as come within the scope of the appendedclaims and their equivalents.

The present disclosure is generally directed to a system that includesdevelopment of an algorithm and verification of a method of theapplication of a battery under different real operating conditions. Themethod includes Lebesgue Sampling fault diagnosis and prognosis (LS-FDP)framework that integrates the automatic learning capability of deeplearning techniques and uncertainty management capability of Bayesianestimation to address their individual limitations.

Some embodiments may include integrating DBN- and Particle Filter-basedfault diagnosis and prognosis in the Lebesgue Sampling framework toimprove the computational efficiency, accuracy, and extensibility of FDPapproaches by studying the design and implementation of uncertaintymanagement of the Monte Carlo method for modeling with deep learningtechniques.

Further, the effectiveness of this method can be verified with theapplication of offline and online experiments on lithium-ion batteries.

This method can be used for a variety of applications including, but notlimited to, using deep learning algorithms to model battery degradation.Battery diagnosis and prognosis is a critical technique, which canprovide accurate state estimation and remaining life prediction. Itpresents a data driven-based FDP method, which is able to improve theprediction accuracy, and to provide uncertainty, representation andmanagement for fault state and RUL, and to reduce the computation forreal-time applications. This system is especially suitable for real-timeapplications, where FDP algorithms are deployed on portable devices orembedded systems that have only limited computation and storagecapabilities, and therefore, has great application prospects.

Accurate and efficient modeling of battery degradation is one of thegreater challenges powering our system, especially as the degradation ofbatteries in modern applications becomes more and more complex. However,deep learning techniques utilized by us are powerful tools for learningthe data characteristics needed for battery degradation modeling.

Deep learning algorithms have powerful feature extraction and learningabilities; however, they are not capable of uncertainty management,which is critical in FDP, especially for long-term prediction inprognosis. Among the three deep learning networks, DBN was developedearlier, has more applications, and has achieved great performance interms of accuracy, stability, and practicality. For this reason, DBN isemployed in this work to model the degradation behaviors of thebatteries.

Moreover, traditional FDP algorithms are designed in the Riemannsampling (RS) framework. In this RS-based FDP (RS-FDP), algorithms areexecuted periodically when a new measurement becomes available. Inpractice, the fault growth rate for many systems is slow, especially atthe early stage of a fault. Consequently, the periodic execution ofRS-FDP leads to heavy computation and high demand for computationalresources. This causes difficulties in real-time applications,especially those distributed ones, where FDP algorithms are deployed onportable devices or embedded systems that have only limited computationand storage capabilities. Further, the traditional RS-based methodsusually have a large prediction horizon, which will increase predictionuncertainty and affect FDP performance.

Currently, our system can be used for battery diagnosis and prognosisfor lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are widely used indifferent applications, such as cell phones, laptops, electric vehicles,watches, etc. The global lithium-ion battery market was valued $36.7billion in 2019, and is projected to hit $129.3 billion by 2027, at aGAGR of 18% from 2020 to 2027. The lithium-ion battery market is highlydriven by the increasing development of electric vehicles in recentyears.

II. Theory of the Proposed Approach

A. Deep Belief Networks

DBNs have deep architectures containing multiple Restricted BoltzmannMachines (RBMs), which consist of a hidden layer and a visible layer[26] to conduct a nonlinear transformation from the previous layer tothe next layer. For the DBN structure shown in FIG. 1 , the output ofthe previous RBM is the input of the next RBM.

RBM is a special probabilistic model of Boltzmann machine [27], [28]. Bydefining v and h as the visible input vector and hidden vector,respectively, the energy function of RBM is:

$\begin{matrix}{{E\left( {v,h} \right)} = {{- {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{m}{v_{j} \cdot a_{j}}}} - {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}{h_{j} \cdot b_{i}}} - {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{m}{v_{j} \cdot w_{ij} \cdot h_{i}}}}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

where a_(i) and b_(j) are the bias terms of the visible node i and thehidden node j respectively, ω_(ij) is the weight of the connectionbetween the nodes i and j.

The joint probability over (v, h) can be obtained by:

$\begin{matrix}{{{p\left( {v,h} \right)} = {\frac{1}{Z}e^{- {E({v,h})}}}};{Z = {\sum\limits_{v,h}e^{- {({v,h})}}}}} & (2)\end{matrix}$

where Z is the partition function given by the sum of the energy of allpossible configurations.

Given a random visible vector v, the conditional probability of thehidden unit with binary value of 1 is:

$\begin{matrix}{{p\left( {h_{i} = \left. 1 \middle| v \right.} \right)} = \frac{1}{1 + e^{{- b_{i}} - {{\sum}_{i = 1}^{m}v_{i}w_{ij}}}}} & (3)\end{matrix}$

Similarly, given a random hidden vector h the conditional probability ofthe visible unit with binary value of 1 is:

$\begin{matrix}{{p\left( {v_{i} = \left. 1 \middle| h \right.} \right)} = \frac{1}{1 + e^{{- a_{i}} - {\sum_{j = 1}^{m}{h_{j}w_{ij}}}}}} & (4)\end{matrix}$

B. LS-Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Model

In the traditional RS-FDP framework, FDP algorithm is executed at thetime instants {t₁, t₂, t₃, . . . , t_(k)} determined by the systemsampling rate or feature extraction rate. This strategy does notconsider the fault degradation speed in which the algorithm is executedperiodically no matter if the fault state change is small or large. InRS-FDP, diagnosis and prognosis use the same model. RS-based diagnosisis to estimate the current fault state distribution using the model andthe previous estimated state. RS-based prognosis is to recursivelypredict the fault states of future time instants, which are comparedwith the failure threshold to obtain the time to failure (TTF).

In the LS-FDP framework, the fault space is partitioned into somepre-defined Lebesgue states {F₁, F₂, F₃, . . . , F_(f)} with a constantor variable Lebesgue length D. As mentioned earlier, LS-FDP is anevent-based approach, in which events are defined as changes of faultstate among Lebesgue states. The diagnostic algorithm is executed whenan event happens. LS-based diagnosis uses a fault state model andestimates the fault state distribution at the event time. LS-basedprognosis, on the other hand, uses a Lebesgue time model and directlypredicts the operation time for the fault state reaching the pre-definedLebesgue states. The TTF is estimated on the Lebesgue state defined onthe failure threshold.

Above discussion shows that LS-FDP uses different models in diagnosisand prognosis. The two models, the state space model and Lebesgue-timemodel, are discussed as follows.

1) State space model: The fault growth dynamics can be generallydescribed as:

x _(k) =f(x _(k−1) ,D,ω _(k))  (5a)

z _(k) =h(x _(k) ,v _(k))  (5b)

where k is event stamp, x is the system state, f(·) depicts the systemstate transition regularity, ω_(k) is the process noise, h(·) is themeasurement equation, z is the state measurement, and v_(k) is themeasurement noise.

For battery capacity degradation application, the capacity is directlyused as measurement z. In LS-DBN based FDP, the state transition modelis used in the diagnosis process to estimate the current fault state.This is similar to the state model in RS-based approaches.

2) Lebesgue-time space model: Different from RS-based prognosis,LS-based prognosis uses a Lebesgue time model (LTM) to directly predictthe operating time distribution for fault state reaching Lebesguestates. The LTM is described as:

t(L _(k+1))=g(L _(k) ,t(L _(k)),D)+ω_(t)(L _(k))  (6)

where g(·) is the time transition function that describes the timeevolution for fault reaching Lebesgue state, L_(k) and L_(k+1) are thetwo adjacent Lebesgue states, D is the Lebesgue length, and ω_(t) is theprocess noise in the time transition process.

LTM plays an important role in LS-based prognosis. Due to the capacitymeasurement noise and battery degradation characteristics, it isimpossible to get an exact corresponding Lebesgue time for each Lebesguestate. To build this model from measurements, a two-side checker, whichis a neighboring range centered at a Lebesgue state [29], is defined foreach Lebesgue state to identify the time measurements. For Lebesguestate L_(k), the two-side checker is defined by the parameter ε(ε<D/2)as [L_(k)−ε, L_(k)+ε] as shown in FIG. 2 . The measurements that fallinto the [L_(k)−ε, L_(k)+ε] are identified and recorded as samples ofLebesgue state L_(k). The mean and variance of the recorded measurementsare used as the distribution of corresponding time measurement T_(k) forL_(k). The parameter e should be set based on the measurement noise toprovide a reasonable and accurate estimation for the Lebesgue timemodel. Based on this strategy, the time transition curve can beobtained, as shown in FIG. 3 , which is then trained by DBN for LTMmodeling.

Note that two models are trained in LS-FDP for diagnosis and prognosis,respectively. For the diagnostic model, the input is a vector of faultstate and the output is the state at the time of a Lebesgue event. Forprognostic model, the input is a vector of time measurement for faultstate reaching previous Lebesgue states, the output is the operatingtime for the fault reaching the next Lebesgue state.

C. LS-Based FDP Using PF

Diagnosis and prognosis aim at estimating the current state andpredicting the TTF. Bayesian estimation techniques [30] provide ageneral rigorous solution for dynamic fault state estimation andprediction problems.

Mathematically, fault state X can be described by a Markov processcharacterized by the initial distribution p(x₀) and the transitionprobability p(x_(k)|x_(k−1)) defined in Eq. (5a). Define x_(0:k)={x₀, .. . , x_(k)} and y_(1:k)={y₁, . . . , y_(k)} as the state andmeasurement up to the kth Lebesgue event. It is of interest to estimatethe posterior distribution p(x_(0:k)|y_(1:k−1)). Based on the Bayesianestimation theory, the task involves two steps, i.e., prediction andfiltering.

The prediction process is defined as:

p(x _(0:k) |y _(1:k−1))=∫p(x _(k) |x _(0:k−1))p(x _(0:k−1) |y_(1:k−1))dx _(0:k−1)   (7)

where p(x_(k−1)|y_(1:k−1)) is the marginal distribution.

The filtering step is conducted with a new measurement to get theposterior probability distribution p(x_(k)|y_(1:k)) which is given as:

$\begin{matrix}{{p\left( x_{0:k} \middle| y_{1:k} \right)} = \frac{{p\left( y_{k} \middle| x_{k} \right)}{p\left( x_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}}{p\left( y_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}} & (8)\end{matrix}$

Since many systems are nonlinear or non-Gaussian, a Sequential MonteCarlo (SMC) method, also known as particle filter, is used toapproximate the optimal solution. In LS, FDP algorithm is only executedat the transition of Lebesgue states. Firstly, a set of N particles{x_(0:k−1) ^(i), w_(k−1) ^(i)}, i=1; 2; . . . , N is assumed availableat the (k−1)th Lebesgue event, where x_(0:k−1) ^(i) define the locationsof particles in the fault state space and are the weights of particleswith the sum of 1. The particles can be used to approximate the desiredstate distribution ψ_(k−1)(x_(0:k−1)). The objective is to approximatethe state distribution ψ_(k)(x_(0:k)) using the obtained new set ofparticles {{circumflex over (x)}_(0:k) ^(i), w_(k) ^(i)} as:

$\begin{matrix}{{{\psi_{k}\left( x_{0:k} \right)} \approx {p_{N}\left( x_{k} \middle| y_{1:k} \right)}} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N}{w_{k}^{i}{\delta\left( {x_{0:k} - {\hat{x}}_{0:k}^{i}} \right)}}}} & (9)\end{matrix}$

where δ is the Dirac-delta function.

The weights of new particles can be obtained as:

$\begin{matrix}{{{w\left( {\hat{x}}_{0:k}^{i} \right)} = {w_{k - 1}^{i}{h\left( y_{1:k} \middle| x_{0:k}^{i} \right)}}};{w_{k}^{i} = \frac{w\left( {\hat{x}}_{0:k}^{i} \right)}{{\sum}_{i = 1}^{N}{w\left( {\hat{x}}_{0:k}^{i} \right)}}}} & (10)\end{matrix}$

where f_(D B N) is the trained state space model using DBN and ω_(k) isthe noise term to the model.

In LS-based diagnosis, the algorithm is executed only when themeasurement causes the transition of Lebesgue state, which is stillexecuted over time to estimate the state but not periodically. On thecontrary, LS-based prognosis is executed over Lebesgue state to predictthe time for fault reaching each Lebesgue state from the current state.The output from diagnosis is the state distribution in the currentLebesgue state while the input to prognosis is the time distributions onthe current Lebesgue state. Therefore, the time distribution of thecurrent Lebesgue state needs to be calculated from the statedistribution [6]. The converted time distribution is then used as theinitial condition for LS-based prognosis.

Assume that the estimated state distribution in diagnosis is representedas p(x_(t) ^(L) ^(k) ), L_(k) is the corresponding Lebesgue state attime instant t_(L) _(k) . With the particles in diagnosis, the timedistribution of the current Lebesgue state can be approximated. In FIG.4 , since the state distribution at the current time instant t_(L) _(k)is approximated using particles, some particles do not reach theLebesgue state L_(k). For those particles, a short prediction isconducted to predict the time instants for the particles reaching theLebesgue state L_(k) [6]. Since the state distribution at t_(L) _(k) isobtained from diagnosis, based on the trained DBN based diagnosticmodel, the prediction is continuously executed until all the particlesreach the current Lebesgue state L_(k). In this process, the timeinstants of the particles reaching the current Lebesgue state L_(k) arerecorded. Then the time distribution of L_(k) can be approximated usingthe recorded particles. FIG. 4 shows the conversion process between timedistribution and state distribution. After the Lebesgue timedistribution is obtained, the prognostic can be conducted over theLebesgue state.

In LS-based prognosis, the prognosis algorithm predicts the timedistribution directly. Based on the estimated fault states and currentLebesgue state, the distribution of the operating time for the statereaching each future Lebesgue state can be predicted by the prognosticmodel given in Eq. (6).

With the prognostic model, n particles {(t_(L) _(k) ^(i), w_(L) _(k)^(i)), (t_(L) _(k−1) ^(i), w_(L) _(k−1) ^(i)), . . . , (t_(L) _(k−n)^(i), w_(L) _(k−n) ^(i))} are established from the estimated state,where n=4 defines the input size of the model, w_(L) _(k) ^(i) is theparticle weight, and t_(L) _(k) ^(i) is the particle location on thetime axis. Since there is no measurement available in this process, theprognosis is an iterative prediction process. The prediction steps are[L_(k+1), L_(k+2), . . . L_(f)], where L_(f) denotes the failureLebesgue state, and the expectations of the prognosis are the operatingtime distribution for the fault reaching the Lebesgue states. The outputcan be denoted as [t (L_(k+1)), t (L_(k+2)), . . . , t(L_(f))]. InLS-based prognosis, the RUL pdf is predicted directly at the failureLebesgue state L_(f).

III. Implementation of the Proposed Algorithm

FIG. 5 outlines the implementation procedures of the proposed Lebesguesampling based DBN FDP (LS-DBN-FDP) approach with an application to thedegradation of state-of-health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries. Theimplementation consists of time measurement, LS-based fault dynamicmodeling, LTM modeling, and FDP algorithm.

DBN based LS-FDP is an event-trigger based approach. FIG. 6 illustratesevent checkers in a battery SOH degradation case, in which the upperboundary of the checker is used as the trigger (the magenta line). Oncethe measurement falls below the checker, the diagnosis algorithm will betriggered [29].

FIG. 7 shows the diagnostic algorithm implementation procedure. When themeasurement becomes available at each time instant (sampling time), theevent checker checks if an event occurs. If yes, the diagnosis algorithmis executed to update the fault state. If not, it indicates that thefault state does not have much change and the diagnostic algorithm isnot executed.

FIG. 8 shows the prognostic algorithm implementation procedure. Inprognosis, the fault state distribution is converted into the timedistribution on the current Lebesgue state, which is used as the initialcondition in prognosis. Then, the corresponding time distributions forall future Lebesgue states are predicted recursively. The TTFdistribution is obtained on the Lebesgue state defined on the failurethreshold.

The details of the implementation procedures are as follows:

-   -   Step 1: Initialization and data preparation: Define Lebesgue        states and build the LS-based fault dynamic model using DBN        training. This model is used in LS-based diagnosis.    -   Step 2: Define two-side measurement checkers and extract the        time measurements for Lebesgue states. Use DBN to train the LTM        based on the time measurements. This model is used in LS-based        prognosis.    -   Step 3: LS-based diagnosis: Collect measurement and use the        event checker to check if an event occurs. If yes, run diagnosis        to estimate the current state. Then, this distribution is        compared against the baseline distribution (defined when the        system is in health condition) for fault detection.    -   Step 4: LS-based prognosis: After a fault is detected, the fault        state distribution is converted into time distribution, which is        used as the initial condition, along with LTM, to predict the        time for fault state reaching the Lebesgue states. TTF is the        time distribution for the Lebesgue state defined on the failure        threshold.

IV. Experiments and Analysis

This section demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method witha series of applications to the state-of-health (SOH) of lithium-ionbatteries. The experiments are implemented in MATLAB R2020a environmentrunning on a computer with Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40 GHz (8 CPUs)processor, 3.4 GHz 16G RAM.

A. Offline Experiments

FIG. 9 shows the capacity degradation of 4 lithium-ion batteries with arated capacity of 1.1 Ah, which are obtained from charge-discharge testsusing a BT2000 battery testing system [31]. The failure threshold isdefined as 0.32 Ah. The parameter ε of the width event checker is 0.005.The Lebesgue length is set as 0.025 in the battery capacity range andthis results in 32 Lebesgue states. FIG. 10 shows the Lebesgue timetransition curves, which are extracted from the capacity degradationprocess based on the Lebesgue time measurement method described in FIG.2 .

-   -   1) DBN based modeling: As mentioned early, diagnosis uses a        fault dynamic model to estimate the fault state. For this model,        the battery aging data is used directly to construct the input        and output for DBN. DBN is performed on capacity data shown in        FIG. 9 to find a representative aging model. FIG. 11 (a) shows        the modeling performance of the diagnostic model, which is        trained from three batteries and shown with the remaining        battery for verification. It is clear that the DBN-based fault        dynamic model can capture the battery capacity degradation        trend. The diagnostic fault model is described as:

{circumflex over (x)} _(k) ^(L) =f _(DBN)(x _(k−1) ,x _(k−2) , . . . ,x_(k−m))+ω(t _(k))  (12)

where f_(DBN) is the trained DBN based diagnostic model, t_(k) is theevent time stamp, ω is the model noise.

The LS-based prognosis uses LTM, which is trained from the extractedtime transition curves shown in FIG. 10 , to predict the TTF. FIG. 11(b) shows the DBN trained prognostic LTM, which is trained from threebatteries and tested with the fourth battery. Obviously, the model isaccurate to describe the fault dynamics. The model can be described as:

{circumflex over (t)} _(L) =g _(DBN)(t _(L−1) ,t _(L−2) , . . . ,x_(L−n))+ω_(L)  (13)

where g_(DBN) is the trained LTM, {circumflex over (t)}_(L) is thepredicted time instant for the Lebesgue state L, and ω_(L) is the modelnoise.

-   -   2) Fault diagnosis and prognosis: In this experiment, each of        the four batteries is used in the leave-one-out        cross-validation. In each validation, three batteries are used        as the training data and the remaining one is for validation.        Therefore, 4 sets of DBN based diagnostic and prognostic models        are used for different batteries. The training algorithm is the        Conjugate Gradient. To save space, only the diagnosis and        prognosis details of battery CS2_35 is shown in detail here. The        main parameters and structures of DBN based diagnostic and        prognostic models are shown in Table I. The cost function and        fine-tuning method of DBN training are Mean Squared Error (MSE)        and three-term conjugate gradient (CG), respectively. It can be        clearly found that both models can describe the measurement        well, the root mean square error (RMSE) of the diagnostic model        and prognostic model are 0.0199 and 10.2728 respectively.

TABLE I PARAMETERS OF DBN MODEL Parameter description DiagnosticPrognostic The unit number of input layer 35 5 The number of RBM 2 2 Theunit number of hidden layer1 60 40 The unit number of hidden layer2 1015 Learning rate of RBM 0.1 0.1 Initial momentum of RBM 0.5 0.5Iterations of each RBM 100 100 Iteration of conjugate gradient 0.5 0.5

In the implementation, the models developed offline are integrated inthe PF-based FDP algorithm. In the diagnosis stage, the particle filteris configured with 500 particles. FIG. 12(a) shows the diagnosticresults for battery CS2_35 at the 450th cycle, and particularly showsthe comparison of the mean value of the battery capacity estimation(given by red) compared with the measurements from the battery testsystem (given by blue), while FIG. 12(b) shows the comparison of theestimated current state pdf (given by magenta) with the baseline pdf(given by green).

After the posterior state distribution of the battery capacity isobtained from diagnosis, it is converted into the time distribution andis used as the initial condition for prognosis. The prognosis uses thetrained LTM to predict the TTF. Since the LS-based FDP approach canreduce the computation significantly, the prognosis is also configuredwith 500 particles. FIG. 13 shows the prognostic result at the 450thcycle. For the predicted time distributions, this figure shows the meanvalue and the 95% confidence interval. To make the figure clear, onlythe results on some selected Lebesgue states are shown. It shows thatthe prediction horizon is only 22 Lebesgue states, which is much smallerthan 407 cycles in RS-based prognosis. This small prediction horizon notonly reduces the computation, but also benefits uncertainty management.

-   -   3) Performance analysis and comparison: To demonstrate the        performance of LS-DBN-FDP, it is compared with RSFDP and        model-based LS-FDP [6] in terms of accuracy and efficiency. To        make fair comparison, all the related parameters and noise terms        in diagnosis and prognosis are kept the same. The comparison        results for battery CS2_36 at the 472nd cycle are presented in        Table II. For diagnosis, the proposed FDP approach just executes        7 times in the past 472 cycles. Compared with RS-FDP approach,        the reduction of computation is (472−12)/472=97.5%. Compared        with model based LS-FDP approach, the reduction of computation        is (56−12)/56=78.6%. Obviously, LS-DBN-FDP is more efficient in        diagnosis.

TABLE II FDP PERFORMANCE COMPARISON AT 472ND CYCLE CS2_36 VariableRS-FDP LS_FDP LS-DBN-FDP Diagnosis Measurement 0.8855 0.8855 0.8855Capa. estimated 0.8756 0.9026 0.8949 Error 0.0099 0.0171 0.0094 Exec.number 472 56 12 Prognosis Ground TTF 844 844 844 Predicted TTF 763.3859.9 839.3 TTF_Enor 80.7 15.9 47 Exec. number 291 25 24

In prognosis, the predicted TTF of LS-DBN-FDP is 839.3 cycles with anerror of 4.7 cycles from the ground truth at the 472nd cycle. Theprediction error is smaller than the prediction errors of 80.7 cyclesand 15.9 cycles based on RS-FDP and model based LS-FDP, respectively. Interms of efficiency, LSDBN-FDP just executes 24 times, which showscomparable efficiency with LS-FDP (due to the same setting of Lebesguestates). Compared with RS-FDP approach, the reduction of computation is(291−21)/291=92.8%. The performance of the proposed method is betterthan that of RS-FDP and model-based LS-FDP.

To demonstrate the RUL prediction accuracy in the whole battery life,α-λ metrics [32] with α=0:3 is used. This metrics shows whether thepredicted RUL at any particular time instant falls into a definedprecision range. FIGS. 14(a) through 14(d) show the α-λ metrics of allbatteries and its comparison with the RS-FDP and model based LS-FDPapproaches. In particular, FIG. 14(a) shows such comparison for batteryCS2_35, FIG. 14(b) shows such comparison for battery CS2_36, FIG. 14(c)shows such comparison for battery CS2_37, and FIG. 14(d) shows suchcomparison for battery CS2_38. To make a fair comparison, all thepredictions start from the 165th cycle. The magenta line is the RULprediction of the proposed method. Compared with the other twoapproaches, the proposed method has smaller prediction RUL fluctuationand higher prediction accuracy. The comparison results further verifythe effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Based on the above analysis, FIGS. 15(a) through 15(d) provide a visualcomparison results for 4 batteries with different FDP methods. TheX-axes of the subfigures represent different FDP methods, the Y-axes aredifferent batteries, and the Z-axes are different evaluation metrics.FIG. 15(a) shows the number of the predicted RUL falls out of theaccuracy zone. FIG. 15(b) is the execution times of diagnosis at the472nd cycle. FIG. 15(c) demonstrates the average prediction errors ofTTF in the whole life. FIG. 15(d) is the execution times of prognosis atthe 472nd cycle. FIG. 15(e) illustrates the relative orientations of theX, Y, and Z axes. It can be clearly found that LS-DBN-FDP has a betterperformance in accuracy and efficiency.

B. Experimental Verification: Online Experiments

To further verify the performance of LS-DBN-FDP, experiments on fourSony 18650 lithium-ion batteries are conducted as shown in FIG. 16 ,which includes an Arbin BT2000 battery testing system and a datacollecting and processing computer.

FIG. 17 shows the raw battery testing data with a rated capacity of 2.2Ah. In most real industry applications, the batteries are replaced whenthe capacity degenerates to 65%˜80% of the rated capacity. In theexperimental verification, the failure threshold is set as 1 Ah and theLebesgue length is set as 0.025 Ah, which yields 48 Lebesgue states. Itcan be seen from the figure that the battery data contain very largenoises, which makes diagnosis and prognosis challenging. FIG. 18 showsthe extracted Lebesgue time transition curves based on the Lebesgue-timeextraction strategy described in FIG. 2 .

From the data in FIGS. 17 and 18 , the state space model and LTM fordiagnosis and prognosis are constructed. FIGS. 19(a) and 19(b) show thediagnosis results and FIG. 20 shows the prognosis results, both at the270th cycle. In particular, FIG. 19(a) shows the comparison of the meanvalue of the battery capacity estimation (given by red) compared withthe measurements from the battery test system (given by blue), whileFIG. 19(b) shows the comparison of the estimated current state pdf(given by magenta) with the baseline pdf (given by green). Thediagnostic algorithm is only implemented 12 times in the past 270cycles, which reduces the computation of RS-based diagnosis by(270−12)/270=95.6%. The predicted TTF is 955.3 with the 95% confidenceinterval of [905.8 1005]. Compared with the ground truth TTF at the978th cycle, the prediction error is small and FDP performance is good.

For the prognosis performance in the whole life, FIGS. 21(a) through21(d) show the results of leave-one-out validation of the four batteriesin terms of α-λ metrics with α=0:3. In particular, FIG. 21(a) shows suchcomparison for battery_1, FIG. 21(b) shows such comparison forbattery_2, FIG. 21(c) shows such comparison for battery_3, and FIG.21(d) shows such comparison for battery_4. To show the advantages of theproposed approach, it is compared with RS-DBN-FDP approach. The resultsshow that the predicted RUL of the proposed approach is stable andalways falls in the accuracy zone. In contract, the predicted RUL ofRS-DBNFDP has larger fluctuation and lower accuracy than that of theproposed LS-DBN-FDP. It is clear that LS-DBN-FDP is able to accommodatethe uncertainties among different batteries, which is desirable inpractical applications.

V. CONCLUSIONS

This present disclosure presents a data-driven approach that integratesDBNs and particle filtering in a Lebesgue sampling-based FDP framework.This approach takes advantages of the strong automatic learningcapability of DBN, the uncertainty management capability of Bayesianestimation, and the cost-efficiency of the LS-based FDP framework, toachieve computation-efficiency and accuracy of FDP. The design of theDBN, the training of state space model for diagnosis, the training ofLebesgue time model for prognosis, and the system integration arediscussed in detail. The proposed method is verified with two batterycase studies. The verification results and comparisons demonstrate thatthe proposed method has a significant improvement in real-time conditionestimation and RUL prediction in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Inthis work, however, the Lebesgue length and related parameters of themethod are manually selected, which can be further optimized to improvethe execution efficiency. Our future work will focus on developing anefficient, optimal, and adaptive parameter setting mechanism based onfault dynamics for the proposed method.

This written description uses examples to disclose the presentlydisclosed subject matter, including the best mode, and also to enableany person skilled in the art to practice the presently disclosedsubject matter, including making and using any devices or systems andperforming any incorporated methods. The patentable scope of thepresently disclosed subject matter is defined by the claims, and mayinclude other examples that occur to those skilled in the art. Suchother examples are intended to be within the scope of the claims if theyinclude structural and/or step elements that do not differ from theliteral language of the claims, or if they include equivalent structuraland/or elements with insubstantial differences from the literallanguages of the claims.

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What is claimed is:
 1. A method for performing diagnosis and prognosisfor lithium-ion batteries which integrates deep learning based modelswith uncertainty management techniques, the method comprising: traininga machine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-basedfault state model to identify and estimate a fault state distribution atan event time for a target battery based on training data associatedwith at least one training lithium-ion battery; training amachine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-basedLebesgue time model to directly predict the operation time for the faultstate to reach pre-defined Lebesgue states based on training dataassociated with at least one training lithium-ion battery and the faultstate distribution at an event time; obtaining test data associated witha target battery; inputting the test data into the machine-learned faultstate model; inputting the test data into the machine-learned Lebesguetime model; and receiving, as outputs of the models, diagnosis of thetarget battery's state distribution and prognosis of the targetbattery's remaining useful life (RUL) distribution, respectively.
 2. Themethod according to claim 1, further comprising using a plurality oftraining batteries.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein thefault state model and Lebesgue time model are respectively trained fordiagnosis and prognosis, with the input for the diagnostic modelcomprising a vector of fault state, and the input for the prognosticmodel comprising a vector of time measurement for fault state reachingprevious Lebesgue states.
 4. The method according to claim 3, whereinthe output for the diagnostic model is the state at the time of aLebesgue event, and the output for the prognostic model comprises theoperating time for the fault reaching the next Lebesgue state.
 5. Themethod according to claim 4, wherein LS-based diagnosis is executed onlywhen measurement causes the transition of Lebesgue state, which is stillexecuted over time to estimate the state but not periodically.
 6. Themethod according to claim 5, wherein LS-based prognosis is executed overLebesgue state to predict the time for fault reaching each Lebesguestate from the current state.
 7. The method according to claim 6,wherein the LS-based prognosis predicts the time distribution directly,and based on the estimated fault states and current Lebesgue state, thedistribution of the operating time for the state reaching each futureLebesgue state is predicted using a Lebesgue time model (LTM) describedas:t(L _(k+1))=g(L _(k) ,t(L _(k)),D)+ω_(t)(L _(k)) where g(·) is the timetransition function that describes the time evolution for fault reachingLebesgue state, L_(k) and L_(k+1) are the two adjacent Lebesgue states,D is the Lebesgue length, and ω_(t) is the process noise in the timetransition process.
 8. The method according to claim 3, wherein thediagnosis and prognosis models respectively estimate the current stateand predict the time-to-failure (TTF) using Bayesian estimationtechniques involving prediction and filtering processes.
 9. The methodaccording to claim 8, wherein the prediction process is defined as:p(x _(0:k) |y _(1:k−1))=∫p(x _(k) |x _(0:k−1))p(x _(0:k−1) |y_(1:k−1))dx _(0:k−1) where p(x_(k−1)|y_(1:k−1)) is the marginaldistribution.
 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the filteringprocess is conducted with a new measurement to get the posteriorprobability distribution p(x_(k)|y_(1:k)), which is given as:${p\left( x_{0:k} \middle| y_{1:k} \right)} = {\frac{{p\left( y_{k} \middle| x_{k} \right)}{p\left( x_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}}{p\left( y_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}.}$11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the filtering processcomprises a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method (particle filter), withparticles used to approximate the desired state distribution.
 12. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein diagnosis is an event-trigger basedapproach.
 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein theevent-trigger based approach comprises in a battery state-of-health(SOH) degradation case an event checker, in which an upper boundary ofthe checker is used as a trigger to perform the diagnosis oncemeasurement falls below the checker.
 14. The method according to claim1, wherein in prognosis, the fault state distribution is converted intothe time distribution on the current Lebesgue state, which is used asthe initial condition in prognosis, and then the corresponding timedistributions for all future Lebesgue states are predicted recursively,with the TTF distribution obtained on the Lebesgue state defined on thefailure threshold.
 15. A system for performing battery diagnosis andprognosis for lithium-ion batteries, comprising: a machine-learnedLebesgue sampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-based fault state modeltrained to identify and estimate a fault state distribution at an eventtime for a target battery based on training data associated with atleast one training lithium-ion battery; a machine-learned Lebesguesampling (LS) deep belief network (DBN)-based Lebesgue time modeltrained to directly predict the operation time for the fault state toreach pre-defined Lebesgue states based on training data associated withat least one training lithium-ion battery and the fault statedistribution at an event time; one or more processors; and one or morenon-transitory computer-readable media that store instructions that,when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or moreprocessors to perform operations, the operations comprising: obtainingtest data associated with a target battery; inputting the test data intothe machine-learned fault state model; inputting the test data into themachine-learned Lebesgue time model; and receiving, as outputs of themodels, diagnosis of the target battery's state distribution andprognosis of the target battery's remaining useful life (RUL)distribution, respectively.
 16. The system according to claim 15,further comprising using a plurality of training batteries.
 17. Thesystem according to claim 15, wherein the one or more processors arefurther programmed to perform operations for respectively training thefault state model and Lebesgue time model for diagnosis and prognosis,with the input for the diagnostic model comprising a vector of faultstate, and the input for the prognostic model comprising a vector oftime measurement for fault state reaching previous Lebesgue states. 18.The system according to claim 17, wherein the one or more processors arefurther programmed to perform operations for the output for thediagnostic model to comprise the state at the time of a Lebesgue event,and for the output for the prognostic model to comprise the operatingtime for the fault reaching the next Lebesgue state.
 19. The systemaccording to claim 18, wherein the one or more processors are furtherprogrammed to perform operations so that LS-based diagnosis is executedonly when measurement causes the transition of Lebesgue state, which isstill executed over time to estimate the state but not periodically. 20.The system according to claim 19, wherein the one or more processors arefurther programmed to perform operations so that LS-based prognosis isexecuted over Lebesgue state to predict the time for fault reaching eachLebesgue state from the current state.
 21. The system according to claim20, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed to performoperations so that the LS-based prognosis predicts the time distributiondirectly, and based on the estimated fault states and current Lebesguestate, so that the distribution of the operating time for the statereaching each future Lebesgue state is predicted using a Lebesgue timemodel (LTM) described as:t(L _(k+1))=g(L _(k) ,t(L _(k)),D)+ω_(t)(L _(k)) where g(·) is the timetransition function that describes the time evolution for fault reachingLebesgue state, L_(k) and L_(k+1) are the two adjacent Lebesgue states,D is the Lebesgue length, and ω_(t) is the process noise in the timetransition process.
 22. The system according to claim 17, wherein theone or more processors are further programmed to perform operations sothat the diagnosis and prognosis models respectively estimate thecurrent state and predict the time-to-failure (TTF) using Bayesianestimation techniques involving prediction and filtering processes. 23.The system according to claim 22, wherein the one or more processors arefurther programmed to perform operations so that the prediction processis defined as:p(x _(0:k) |y _(1:k−1))=∫p(x _(k) |x _(0:k−1))p(x _(0:k−1) |y_(1:k−1))dx _(0:k−1) where p(x_(k−1)|y_(1:k−1)) is the marginaldistribution.
 24. The system according to claim 23, wherein the one ormore processors are further programmed to perform operations so that thefiltering process is conducted with a new measurement to get theposterior probability distribution p(x_(k)|y_(1:k)), which is given as:${p\left( x_{0:k} \middle| y_{1:k} \right)} = {\frac{{p\left( y_{k} \middle| x_{k} \right)}{p\left( x_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}}{p\left( y_{k} \middle| y_{1:{k - 1}} \right)}.}$25. The system according to claim 23, wherein the one or more processorsare further programmed to perform operations so that the filteringprocess comprises a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method (particlefilter), with particles used to approximate the desired statedistribution.
 26. The system according to claim 15, wherein the one ormore processors are further programmed to perform operations so thatdiagnosis is an event-trigger based approach.
 27. The system accordingto claim 26, wherein the one or more processors are further programmedto perform operations so that the event-trigger based approach comprisesin a battery state-of-health (SOH) degradation case an event checker, inwhich an upper boundary of the checker is used as a trigger to performthe diagnosis once measurement falls below the checker.
 28. The systemaccording to claim 15, wherein the one or more processors are furtherprogrammed to perform operations so that in prognosis, the fault statedistribution is converted into the time distribution on the currentLebesgue state, which is used as the initial condition in prognosis, andthen the corresponding time distributions for all future Lebesgue statesare predicted recursively, with the TTF distribution obtained on theLebesgue state defined on the failure threshold.
 29. A method forperforming state-of-charge (SOC) diagnosis and prognosis for lithium-ionbatteries which integrates deep belief networks for data processing andmodeling with particle filtering (PF) for Bayesian estimation inLebesgue sampling (LS) for uncertainty management, the methodcomprising: training a machine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deepbelief network (DBN)-based fault state model to identify and estimate afault state distribution at an event time for a target battery based ontraining data associated with a plurality of training lithium-ionbatteries; training a machine-learned Lebesgue sampling (LS) deep beliefnetwork (DBN)-based Lebesgue time model to directly predict theoperation time for the fault state to reach pre-defined Lebesgue statesbased on training data associated with a plurality of traininglithium-ion batteries and the fault state distribution at an event time;obtaining test data associated with a target battery; inputting the testdata into the machine-learned fault state model; inputting the test datainto the machine-learned Lebesgue time model; and receiving, as outputsof the models, diagnosis of the target battery's state distribution andprognosis of the target battery's remaining useful life (RUL)distribution, respectively, using respective different models.
 30. Themethod according to claim 29, wherein in LS-based prognosis, theLebesgue time distribution is obtained, and the prognostic is conductedover the Lebesgue state.
 31. The method according to claim 30, whereinin LS-based prognosis, the RUL is predicted directly at the failureLebesgue state L_(f).
 32. The method according to claim 29, wherein theLS-based prognosis uses a Lebesgue time model (LTM) to directly predictthe operating time distribution for fault state reaching Lebesguestates.
 33. The method according to claim 32, wherein the LTM isdescribed as:t(L _(k+1))=g(L _(k) ,t(L _(k)),D)+ω_(t)(L _(k)) where g(·) is the timetransition function that describes the time evolution for fault reachingLebesgue state, L_(k) and L_(k+1) are the two adjacent Lebesgue states,D is the Lebesgue length, and ω_(t) is the process noise in the timetransition process.
 34. The method according to claim 32, wherein withthe prognostic model, n particles {(t′_(L) _(k) , w′_(L) _(k) ),(t_(k−1) ^(i), w_(k−1) ^(i)), . . . , (t_(L) _(k−1) ^(i), w_(L) _(k−1)^(i))} are established from the estimated state, where n=the input sizeof the model, ω_(L) _(k) ^(i) is the particle weight, and t_(L) _(k)^(i) is the particle location on the time axis.
 35. The method accordingto claim 29, wherein prognosis comprises an iterative prediction processwith the prediction steps [L_(k+1), L_(k+2), . . . , L_(f)], where L_(f)denotes the failure Lebesgue state, and the expectations of theprognosis are the operating time distribution for the fault reaching theLebesgue states.
 36. The method according to claim 35, wherein theprognosis output can be denoted as [t(L_(k+1)), t(L_(k+2)), . . . ,t(L_(f))].
 37. The method according to claim 29, wherein the fault statemodel is used in the diagnosis process to estimate the current faultstate.
 38. The method according to claim 37, wherein per the fault statemodel, the fault growth dynamics are described as:x _(k) =f(x _(k−1) ,D,ω _(k))z _(k) =h(x _(k) ,v _(k)) where k is event stamp, D is the Lebesguelength, x is the system state, f(·) depicts the system state transitionregularity, ω_(k) is the process noise, h(·) is the measurementequation, z is the state measurement, and v_(k) is the measurementnoise.